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Or I can show my summary on my iPad when I get there. Slightly less easy to fake. It's still up to the lounge staff, though.

Status is printed on Qantas boarding passes, but not partner airline boarding passes.

Okay - I called Qantas and got a very friendly, helpful customer service rep on the phone. Upshot, unfortunately, is that they can't sent the new SG card out early and it will be up to the lounge staff whether or not they let me in with the expired card+ability to show my status online. Since I...

How about 35G? I currently have 35G requested on a QF1 A380 flight. There's an empty seat next to me, so far. SeatGuru says that "proximity to the lavatories" may be a bother, but it does seem as though only a few people will be using those toilets, so I'm hoping that won't be an issue. There...

Even though I won't requalify until after that QF1 flight?

I will be off on an around the world trip (for work purposes, but unfortunately, flying economy all the way) in mid May. The first leg of the trip will tip me over the SC balance required to retain Qantas SG. My current Qantas gold FF card is due to expire at the end of May and I will be doing...

How do you tip hotel cleaners? Do you take the money to the front desk? Add it when you settle the bill as you check out? Or do you leave it in the room? Do you leave a note with it, or leave it in some special place, or is any cash left lying around assumed to be a tip in the US?

Before Kindles were widely available in stores in Australia, I was doing quite nicely buying myself a new one every year and selling my old one, second hand, for more than the purchase price of a new one from Amazon.

It's also impractical with the QC20s, as they stick out too far. You could just leave in the one in the outside ear, I guess.

In a moment of weakness, I bought a pair on the way back from China last week, to supplement my QC15s and Bose IE2s and my MIE2s and my Klipsch and Phillips and Apple earphones. (It's... a weakness). They are lovely. Very comfy and incredibly good noise cancellation. The cord length is ample. My...

I remember them from childhood, and how they hurt my ears. The second part of in-flight entertainment in those days was the free deck of cards you could get on every flight, if you asked. And instead of the activity packs for kids that they have these days, kids were given little winged brooches...

We have enough bandwidth for low-resolution videoconferencing, which is fine for one-on-one conversations. We don't have enough bandwidth currently to videoconference effectively with a room full of people. With current bandwidth, you either can't see facial details of people in the other room...

Let's say someone comes up with an idea for a new service that 70% of households would want. If everyone already has the connection, the idea is highly commercial and can go ahead, as can the next 10 or 20 innovations like it. If only a few people have the connection, it's a non-starter. Sure...

As others have pointed out, the speed that the average person needs is rapidly increasing, and it makes more sense to put in the infrastructure in one go rather than have to go back a second time to retrofit after speed is lagging behind need. Equally important, if everyone has reliable, high...

What luggage do you recommend for me? My top priority is heavy-duty wheels, though it's also important that the luggage itself not be too heavy. My large, 15-year old Hummer luggage has finally developed a crack in its wheels. This bag has been great: a soft bag with a firm base big (20cm...

It'd be nice to be able to save a few standard searches in my FF profile and select them using radio buttons rather than searching from scratch each time. CBR-Christchurch return, CBR to Brisbane, CBR to Hobart...

I left a Kindle on a QF flight last year. Qantas had phoned me before I got home and had it waiting for me at baggage services.

With some brands, though they get good reviews from others, I find the speaker tips are too big, so it doesn't matter what bud size I use, they won't sit in my ear canals properly. For me, the Klipsch in-ear earbuds are very comfortable and almost always stay in place.

One trick to help then stay in better if you are moving around a lot is to loop the cord over your ears (front to back), which reduces the drag on the earbuds. I do that when I go jogging in mine, and it makes a big difference. You could also try the new Bose noise-cancelling in-ear headphones...